The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-10-04

! enV medicines may purchase it in quantity
should expect to find market for it in Phila-
aelphla or New York, if enc exists anywhere
j. II. ", crown Point Fla: have any amount of
muck which wish t, compost with Gotten seed
meal and sphate of potash as a fertilizer for veget-
ap4es- Can make Il irstclass fertilizer out of this
muck without the addition of any other ingredient
oeSues cotton seed meal aud s,llphate of potash? If
not, what shall I add and in what proportion?
MUCK IS Oh TO 10 per cent vegetable matter, and is
plentiful
Muck IS most excellent foundation for
making composts 1t ought first either to be
aug up and thrown out in piles where it may
afy ana weather for many months, or else put
up IN heaps with ashes or lime The latter is
the Better plan. Add ten bushels either of
hme or ashes to a cord of muck, and let it re-
mann III heap pen) couple of months, and
then mix it with the other ingredients you
mention. For your purposes 250 pounds of
cotton-seed meal 100 pounds of bone meal Tor
Ioo pounds of acid phosphate) and 100 pounds
| OF sulphate of potash, added to so bushels of
muck, would make an excellent fertilizer.
Inc above quantity would be light manur-
ing Tor an acre in the drill. The quantity
might be doubled
MRS. j. II. j. Denver, Ark. Where can I buy
ouckwheat Seed and when is proper season for SOW
lug It, and what quantity is sown per acre and how
10 SOW It, and how to prepare land before and when
sowing, and what is usual market Price of buck
| wheat seed?
In any of the mountains towns of North
| Carolina, Ashville or Henderson
| vile buckwheat is sown the
last OF July, about one bushel per
acre Break up land in usual manner, SOW
! seed broadcast and plow them in as YOU would
peas. The market price we do not know.
| C. c. E, Florence, Ala: viii you please inform
me OF the probability of finding flow of water by
boring an arterian WE'LL first, the probable depth,
second, the probable cost per foot third could you
give me the address Of any rarty in that line of
! business.
LIST. Not being familiar with the structure
| and arrangements Of the rock strata in your
region of country, we cannot form an opinion
as to the probability of getting water by an
artesian boring. The conditions of success
are, water bearing strata underlaid and over
laid with others imperyious to water and all
| inclined so as to come to the surface at some
| point higher than that where the well is bored
! ana running down, at not too great depth be-
low the proposed well, and not broken and
| insured by upheayals. Strata of loose sand
| stone or gravel between beds of close clay sit
uated as above, would meet the case.
I'd. The cost depends upon nature of ma
terial through which the boring is done. Cam
| not venture an opinion.
Sd. Colonel John p, Fort of Georgia has had
! large experience with these wells, and could
| give you information desired. We believe his
| postofice is Macon, Ga.
| Riverside, Ga: have piece of light pinev
| woods land cleared twenty years ago. clay subsoil
from ten inches to two feet of top in corn and peas
! present year, that would like to sow in wheat
a 10 To
when to sow, so as to expect best results Fertil-
| lzers available are green cotton seed c. s. meal
acid phosphate, kainit and some of the different am
nominated superphosphates.
| Wheat prefers rather compact soil no ne
cessity therefore for repeated breakings and
harrowings of your light land, as in case of
clay soils. Cut corn stalks in short pieces so
| they will not be i'll the way. Sow wheat and
| fertilizers, and cover with turn plows set to
run two inches deep. After blowing, roll the
| land Do this about the first of November.
Light sandy soils having little power to hold
| manure and keep it from teaching, it is not
advisable to make heavy applications at one
| time and especially in winter. ! 9 following
Is suggested for one acre 100 pounds each of A.
| phosphate and G. S. meal, and Is bushels of
! green cotton seed at time of planting In
| February, apply as top dressing, 80 pounds of
| A. phosphate, 100 pounds of kainit and 200
| pounds of G. S. meal per acre.
| 7. ". B, Townsville, Ga: l send YOU q speci-
men of ''Nanilla;' is there any market for it, and
| what is it worth in the market?
| The plant sent is a species of Lathgrass. It
| IS used to some extent we believe for fIavoring
tobacco, but cannot answer about market OR
| price. Address some tobacco manufacturer in
Richmond, Va.
S. L. h, Marion y. c. Please give the best method
for laying OFF terraces and grading upland bitches
| p have mountain side of about fifty acres that
| wish to pasture without clearing the land It is
| covered with original forest growth Would it pay
to take offthe underground AMI SOW in grass?
First, there is no need for hillside bitches
! when terracing is practiced, except for cutting
| off water from woodlands and uncultivated
fields above the terraced land, and for controlI-
| ing water for year or two, where the land
| has been badly quilted. For the last purpose
they are not indispensable, but we have found
! them useful at times. The grade of a hillside
| ditch is regulated by steepness of slope, the
| greater the declivity the greater must be the
| fall in ditch. For the sleeper slopes a fall of
one foot in fifty is not too much, for gentle
| slopes one in sixty will an
! swer. The distance between bitches is
regulated by the same thing-the sleeper the
slope, the nearer the bitches. From point
where water accumulates, or wash has be-
| gun, start ditch and run it so as to strike q
| branch other outlet upstream. This
| will make shorter bitches than to
! run them down stream. Various in
| struments are used for the purpose we have
run great many with the ordinary rafter
level, with very satisfactory results. Having
marked off the line Of ditch, start six feet be-
! low with a hillside pillow and work up to line
OF ditch. Start back again one furrow nearer
! to line Of ditch and throw dirt down hill again
repeat this several times, and finally the upper
or last furrow will be aprotty respectable ditch
! without further work. If not large enough
clean out, as may be necessary, with hoe or
/ shovel. In breaking land after the ditch is
made, leave an unplowed strip three or four
feet wide along upper margin Of ditch, and let
| it grow up in weeds and grass 1t serves as a
check and filter to the water coming into the
ditch from above, and will gradually elevate
the upper margin of the ditch. If this sewage
is not left, the constant tendency is for the up
per margin Of the ditch to be washed down
| into the ditch.